Jack Webb
Actor/Actriz
33
Filmes
25
Séries
John Randolph 'Jack' Webb (also known by the pen name John Randolph; April 2, 1920 – December 23, 1982) was an American actor, television producer, director, and screenwriter, who is most famous for his role as Sergeant Joe Friday in the radio and television series Dragnet. He was also the founder of his own production company, Mark VII Limited.
Born in Santa Monica, California, Webb grew up in the Bunker Hill section of Los Angeles as the child of a single mother after his father left home before he was born. During World War II, Webb enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces, but he "washed out" of flight training and was granted a hardship discharge to care for his family. Following his discharge, he moved to San Francisco, where a wartime shortage of announcers led to a temporary appointment to his own half-hour comedy radio show on ABC's KGO Radio in 1946. By 1949 he had abandoned comedy for drama, and starred in numerous radio shows until finding success in film and television in the late 1950s.
Webb had a featured role as a crime lab technician in the 1948 film He Walked by Night, a thinly-fictionalized recounting of the 1946 Walker crime spree. This experience gave Webb the idea for Dragnet: a recurring series based on real cases from LAPD police files, featuring authentic depictions of the modern police detective, including methods, mannerisms, and technical language. Following the success of Dragnet, Webb appeared in numerous television shows and specials, including the well-known 1972 series Emergency!
During his work on a revival of Dragnet in 1982, Webb suffered a heart attack and died at the age of 62. His funeral was given full police honors, and then LAPD Chief Daryl Gates retired the badge number 714 used by Webb's Joe Friday of Dragnet fame.
Como Ator/Atriz
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
Dragnet
Joe Friday
The Oscars
Self
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
Show de Ed Sullivan
Self
Dragnet
Joe Friday
The Jack Benny Program
Jack Webb
El ocaso de una vida
Artie Green
This Is Your Life
Self
General Electric True
Self - host
O.J.: Made in America
Sgt. Joe Friday (archive footage)
The Men
Norm
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Sergeant Joe Friday in Dragnet (archive footage)
Hasta el último hombre
Correspondent Dickerman
Three on a Match
Boy in Schoolyard (uncredited)
Dragnet
Sergeant Joe Friday
He Walked by Night
Lee Whitey
El vengador invisible
Augie
You're in the Navy Now
Ens. Anthony 'Tony' Barbo
Hollow Triumph
Bullseye (uncredited)
The D.I.
Gunnery Sgt. Jim Moore
24 Hour Alert
Himself
Appointment with Danger
Joe Regas
Pete Kelly's Blues
Pete Kelly
Red Nightmare
On-Camera Narrator
O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra
Narrator
The Selling of the Pentagon
Self (archive footage)
-30-
Sam Gatlin
The Last Time I Saw Archie
William 'Bill' Bowers
The John Glenn Story
Narrator
Por Trás das Câmeras
Dragnet
Director, Productor, Creator
Emergency!
Productor, Director, Creator
Adam-12
Director, Productor, Productor Ejecutivo, Creator
77 Sunset Strip
Productor
Dragnet
Director, Escritor, Creator
The Ford Television Theatre
Historia
L.A. Dragnet
Creator
Temple Houston
Creator
Project U.F.O.
Productor, Creator
Hec Ramsey
Productor
General Electric True
Director, Productor, Creator
The New Adam-12
Creator
Chase
Productor
Sierra
Productor, Creator
Mobile One
Productor
O'Hara, U.S. Treasury
Productor, Creator
Dragnet
Director
Sam
Productor
The D.I.
Director
Mobile Two
Productor Ejecutivo
Pete Kelly's Blues
Director, Productor
The D.A.: Murder One
Productor Ejecutivo
Little Mo
Productor Ejecutivo
The Log of the Black Pearl
Productor Ejecutivo
O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra
Director
The Century Turns
Productor Ejecutivo
Emergency!
Director, Productor Ejecutivo
The Man from Galveston
Productor Ejecutivo
The D.A.'s Man
Productor, Creator
The D.A.: Conspiracy to Kill
Productor Ejecutivo